Measurement Error in Nutritional Epidemiology: A Survey

This article reviews bias-correction models for measurement error of exposure variables in the field of nutritional epidemiology. Measurement error usually attenuates estimated slope towards zero. Due to the influence of measurement error, inference of parameter estimate is conservative and confidence interval of the slope parameter is too narrow. Bias-correction in estimators and confidence intervals are of primary interest. We review the following bias-correction models: regression calibration methods, likelihood based models, missing data models, simulation based methods, nonparametric models and sampling based procedures.